I refuse to spell it any other way than Fucking.

The best part about Shitterton is that the name comes from “sewer town.” Not another language, no alternate meaning, it is just as it sounds in modern English.

No need to use them now that Trump will withdraw support.

Let’s see, what exactly did I get…“say that cats accompany humans more than 9500 years.” “You’re welcome.” The shared Latin roots of “accompany” and “humans” making them very similar in both languages helped a lot.

I impressed myself by being able to understand this comic with my extremely basic knowledge of Spanish.

Yup, these guys would have escaped long ago.

Creepy birdwatchers, eh?

No, no, he means it didn’t put her in another phase of existence.

Bobson Dugnutt has always been my favorite. It sounds like a perfectly legitimate Western name, it just…isn’t. The Japanese equivalent would be something like Fujohiko Watashinze.

Exocomps have such a ridiculous design. They’re far more at home in a cartoon than in live action.

No, go the other way, it’s closer to Aristotle’s name in the original Greek. Ah-ree-stoh-teh-leese.

So did you think “goose” was pronounced like “choose?” Understandable.

I can see why he’d have trouble with those two, because Spanish doesn’t have the English “z” sound. They’ll both sound the same using Spanish pronunciation .

Usually the reason is either because some jerks intentionally changed certain spellings to look more French/Latin (“receipt” didn’t have a “p” originally, for example), or just because English is such a mongrel language with words taken from various other languages with different spelling and pronunciation rules.

They aren’t universally, just in certain dialects. I pronounce the “th” just like with “clothing.”

“Made” and “bade” supposedly not rhyming confused me, how is “bade” supposed to be pronounced?

*shudder* John Denver!

And this was in a blue city in a blue state. It’s gonna be really bad.

Best one I could find, from 2018:

I actually did desperately want that Nintendo Switch in, oh, '89 or '90? I was living in Germany at the time and my RF switch cord got severed. This was the dark ages before the internet, so the only option was to order one and wait a month or so for it to arrive. That was a long month!